The actual reality, however, is that the United States has marginalized Iraq as one of the richest and most ancient countries of the Middle East. The American invasion of Iraq is something that Mr. Biden did not mention. Reading the article, one is bound to feel that the United States is the power which created oil under Iraqi soil, endowed it with civilization, moulded its people to become decent human beings, and will continue to do so until Iraq becomes capable of survival after seven years of destruction and terrorism inflicted by the American war on Iraq. Naturally, Mr. Biden does not identify those who caused the war or those responsible for waging and sustaining it.
So, in order to unleash the Iraqis’ potentials and talents, the United States, according to Biden, is not withdrawing from Iraq, but “rather, the nature of our engagement is changing from a military to a civilian lead”. For the 50,000 soldiers remaining until 2011 have a new task which is advising and assisting their Iraqi counterparts.
At the same time, Biden writes: “Meanwhile, we are establishing a diplomatic presence throughout the country and, under the terms of our Strategic Framework Agreement, building a dynamic partnership across a range of government sectors, including education, energy, trade, health, culture, information technology, law enforcement and the judiciary.”
The remarkable thing here is that education takes priority over energy, trade and the rule of law, because the objective is to effect a drastic change in the vision and identity of future Iraqi generations so that they grow up accepting, through brainwashing processes, this new form of neo-colonialism, which planned, before the invasion, subjugating Iraq and blundering its resources for centuries to come. In order to camouflage this neo-colonialism, the Americans use terms like “providing intensive assistance”, “sustained American presence” in Iraq, plans for modernizing Iraqi security forces and funding the police force, and providing all this assistance to security forces through civilian efforts led by the State Department. This means that the responsibility for the occupation of Iraq is shifting from the Pentagon to the State Department, which, in turn, coordinates the efforts of using education, the judiciary, health and energy in order to colonize Iraq in accordance with modern methods. Biden concludes by writing that the cost of the war has been very high for America; for 4,430 American soldiers have paid with their lives for it.Of course, the price paid by the Iraqis is of no consequence to Biden. What does it mean for him, or for his administration, that a million Iraqis have been killed, wounded and tortured. That is why we find him ignoring all this price. Biden stresses that it is in the United States’ real interest to maintain the gains made by Iraq. Of course he means the gains made by the United States in Iraq.
The main objective of the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq, spending billions and sacrificing thousands of Americans for that end, is to turn Iraq into a satellite and a major base for the United States in a region of vital importance for the United States. This importance is a code name for protecting Israel’s security. This is the objective of invading Iraq, destabilizing Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Lebanon and others.
What do those who theorize for the West’s impartiality say to Joseph Biden who explains the United States’ objectives and interests in Iraq without showing in his article any trace of the Iraqi people, their interests and the hefty price they paid to achieve the vital American policy objective in the Middle East – protecting Israel’s security?
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